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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Petrarch

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

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